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1. Official SAT Practice Test ®
2011-12
Taking the Practice Test
The practice test will help you most if you take it under conditions as close as possible to those of
the actual test.
• Set aside 3 hours and 20 minutes of uninterrupted time
That way you can complete the entire test in one sitting. Note: The total testing time is
3 hours and 45 minutes, but you save 25 minutes because the unscored section* from this
practice test was omitted.
• Sit at a desk or table cleared of any other papers or books
You won’t be able to take a dictionary, books, notes, or scratch paper into the test room.
• Allow yourself the specified amount of time for each section
Pace yourself by using a watch (without an audible alarm), which is what you are allowed
to use on test day.
• Have a calculator at hand when you take the math sections
This will help you determine how much to use a calculator the day of the test. Use a
calculator with which you are familiar—preferably the same calculator you will use on test
day.
• Read the test instructions carefully
They are reprinted from the back cover of the test book. On test day, you will be asked to
read them before you begin answering questions.
• Make sure you use a No. 2 pencil
It is very important that you fill in the entire circle on the answer sheet darkly and
completely. If you change your response, erase it as completely as possible. It is very
important that you follow these instructions when filling out your answer sheet.
• Record your answers on paper, then score your test
Use the answer sheet when completing a practice test on paper to simulate the real testing
environment. After completing the practice test, you can score the test yourself with
“Scoring Your Test,” or you can return to collegeboard.com to enter your answers online
and receive a score report and answer explanations.

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SAT — General Directions
Timing
• You will have 3 hours and 45 minutes to work on this test. IMPORTANT: The codes below are unique to
• There are ten separately timed sections: your test book. Copy them on your answer
One 25-minute essay sheet in boxes 8 and 9 and fill in the
Six other 25-minute sections corresponding circles exactly as shown.
Two 20-minute sections
One 10-minute section
• You may work on only one section at a time.
• The supervisor will tell you when to begin and end each section. 9 TEST FORM
(Copy from back of test book.)
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• If you finish a section before time is called, check your work on that section.
You may NOT turn to any other section.
• Work as rapidly as you can without losing accuracy. Don’t waste time on
questions that seem too difficult for you.
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Marking Answers (Copy and grid as on
• Be sure to mark your answer sheet properly. back of test book.)
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If you erase, do so completely. Incomplete erasures may be scored as
intended answers.
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• Use only the answer spaces that correspond to the question numbers.
Using Your Test Book
• You may use the test book for scratch work, but you will not receive credit
for anything that you write in your test book.
• After time has been called, you may not transfer answers from your test
book to your answer sheet or fill in circles.
• You may not fold or remove pages or portions of a page from this book,
or take the book or answer sheet from the testing room.
Scoring
• For each correct answer, you receive one point.
• For questions you omit, you receive no points.
• For a wrong answer to a multiple-choice question, you lose one-fourth of
a point.
If you can eliminate one or more of the answer choices as wrong,
you increase your chances of choosing the correct answer and
earning one point.
If you can’t eliminate any choice, move on. You can return to the
question later if there is time.
• For a wrong answer to a student-produced response (“grid-in”) math
question, you don’t lose any points.
• Multiple-choice and student-produced response questions are machine
scored.
• The essay is scored on a 1 to 6 scale by two different readers. The total
essay score is the sum of the two readers’ scores.
• Off-topic essays, blank essays, and essays written in ink will receive a
score of zero.
• If your essay does not reflect your original and individual work, your test
scores may be canceled.
The passages for this test have been adapted from published material.
The ideas contained in them do not necessarily represent the opinions of the College Board.
DO NOT OPEN THIS BOOK UNTIL THE
SUPERVISOR TELLS YOU TO DO SO.

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